Eric Maisel

The challenges smart and creative people encounter—ranging from scientific researchers and genius award winners to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered lawyers, and academics—often include anxiety, over-thinking, mania, sadness, and despair. Specifically, the challenges that smart people face include: "racing brain syndrome" living in an anti-intellectual culture finding ideas worth loving dealing with boredom and hypersensitivity finding meaning in their lives...